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Analytics – An Integral Part of Care Management Success
Last week, I attended the 3rd Health Analytics Summit (HAS). This was my first time attending an event that now attracts over 1,000 attendees. Providers were well represented at the event with nearly...
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Looking Back – Assessing Our 2016 Predictions
As has become a tradition here at Chilmark Research, it is time once again to look back at our predictions for 2016 and make an honest assessment of just how accurate we were. We do like to go beyond...
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Deriving Value from Enterprise Systems
Much consternation has been expressed over the years regarding massive enterprise software roll-outs. There are numerous examples in virtually any industry sector one cares to look at. Years ago, when...
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Care Management in an Evolving Healthcare Industry
Care management, sometimes referred to as medical management, is often used as an umbrella term spanning a large number of activities. Other times it is one of several terms under another common...
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Back to the Crystal Ball: Our 2018 Healthcare IT Market Predictions
Our favorite post of the year is this one. As analysts, we come together with our propeller hats on to collectively look ahead at the key trends in the year to come in the healthcare sector. While...
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The Most “Disruptive” Development of 2017 Goes to…Taxes!
Physicians in the Cross Hairs: As states with business-friendly tax codes become a physician’s mecca, those of us in high-tax states may find a dwindling number of practitioners in the next decade. As...
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Amid the Fire & Flurry – #JPM18
This past week I attended the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, and the multitude of satellite events surrounding it, which attracts about 40,000 people from across the industry. It is where...
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One More Step in the Long Road of Precision Medicine
CMS decision removes important barrier for some Medicare cancer patients to access next generation sequencing and companion targeted therapies as well as potential clinical trials. For any new therapy,...
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Promoting Interoperability: MU Fades to Black
By Brian Murphy and Brian Eastwood Seeking to liberate the industry from its self-created morass of siloed data and duplicative quality reporting programs, the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Future Winners in Accelerating Shift to Value
Last week, CMS released its proposed rule (beware – in good government fashion it’s a whooping 607 pages) for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program. CMS...
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How will Proposed Changes to CMS Telehealth Reimbursement Affect Adoption?
Key Takeaways CMS-proposed rule changes extend Medicare Advantage and Part D plan coverage for telehealth services starting in 2020 Proposal includes enhancements to the Star Ratings methodology, which...
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Is Radiation Oncology Ready for Alternative Payments?
Recent comments by Secretary Alex M. Azar II indicate changes ahead Key Takeaways Mandatory alternative payment model (APM) is coming for radiation oncologists. HHS has not yet released many details...
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What Are Bundled Payments and Are They Here to Stay?
Key Takeaways Current vendor solutions are limited and generally require additional advisory services. Few available solutions offer workflow integration, especially across post-acute care settings, to...
View ArticleWebinar — Bundled Payments: Current Strategies and Tools
In this webinar, Chilmark Analyst Matt Guldin presents key findings from our report, Bundled Payments: Current Strategies and Tools. Afterward, he and special guest Andrew Tessier (Business Development...
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How Far Have We Progressed on True Continuous Costing?
Three years ago, our report Making Healthcare Affordable: Implementing True Continuous Costing explored the need for, and benefits of, implementing True Continuous Costing (TCC). TCC is an analytics...
View ArticleWhat Will ONC Do With TEFCA?
Chilmark Bight from May 2018: Major issues raised by stakeholders about the 1st draft of TEFCA ONC’s draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and U.S. Core Data for...
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Take a Break From Worrying About COVID-19. We Have New Rules!
New rules from CMS and ONC hold few surprises for devotees of the regulatory process – a niche crowd, admittedly. Both agencies thoroughly communicated and responded to the industry at every step....
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AI and Recent Regulatory, Policy and Funding Updates
While COVID-19 has been dominating the healthcare headlines so far in 2020 there have been a number of recent policy and regulatory decisions bearing on the AI/ML market in healthcare. We have been...
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Looking to the Future – 2021 Predictions
Unlike past years when we have written a post evaluating how well our predictions for that year held up, let’s just say the COVID pandemic threw a monkey wrench into everything and move on....
View ArticleTop Health IT predictions for 2021
AI-generated transcript follows: John Moore III: [00:00:00] Hi again, welcome back to Chilmark Research. My name is John Moore and I’m a vice president here. This week we sat down with the team to...
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Keeping Momentum in Telehealth and Virtual Care
If you’d asked almost anyone in the healthcare IT industry about telehealth in mid-2020, their response would have been full of enthusiasm about finally unleashing all the promise telehealth had been...
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Looking Back: Reviewing Our 2021 Predictions
Conservative Predictions Result in More Hits than Misses By: John Moore & the Chilmark Research Team Looking back at our end-of-year predictions for 2021, I am not particularly enthused. Sure, we...
View ArticleTechnologies Driving Improved Healthcare Experiences
The Consumer, the Patient, and the Way Forward Despite the substantial resources that have been poured into the healthcare consumer experience, it remains a tough nut to crack fully open. Health care...
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Prior Auth Transparency Can Kicked Down the Road Again
On December 6th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule containing requirements aimed at improving patient and provider access to health information, as well as...
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Home Sweet Home
The CMS Hospital at Home Program Key Takeaways Hospital at Home (H@H) programs are growing in popularity and will remain on the rise in 2023 if CMS extends their waiver policy in 2023/2024.Major...
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